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Originally Posted by CRACKPIPE  The music is already there, trust , but it's naive to think you can have commercial success looking like a bum.
I've always wanted to be more than a "beat maker" I want to work with talent and shape our sound. I have insight but the hard part is getting people with strong egos to trust that.
My main priority is our sound, it's music and there is too much image driven bullshit, but this is the playing field. |
Though those other guys are right, I can tell by how you write that, you have some sense for the whole A&R rep thing. Keep going in that direction. Im like, the resident rasta here so, you can probably imagine my stance on the whole "pipe" issue, lol.
But seriously: in the real world, and the higher you go musically (in certain genres), theres gonna be somebody there saying "Wear this, say that, now wear this, and PLAY this". And hip-hop people are probably the most "designed" in this way. Guys in pop bands also get the same treatment. Ever seen pics pf the Blink 182 guys before they got signed? Not ONE tattoo. The record company fully designed the look of those guys.
And it takes people of certain mindsets to do this. Its not the prettiest aspect of the 'biz, but its certainly a factor.